4 July 2014

Dreams – Connecting You To The Spirit World & Higher Consciousness

We've all woken up in the morning and
said something like 'I had a really strange dream!' or 'My dreams
were really vivid last night'. Sometimes we don't remember our
dreams, only an emotional residue that tells us that we've been
experiencing something. You can receive communication in your dreams,
go on wondrous adventures, meet people and animals, even think up new
ideas and have revelations. You can ask for spirit contact in a dream
or make a request for information, but it's not guaranteed you'll get
it. Your physical body needs sleep for survival, but spiritually it
could be a link to the great mass unconsciousness. Past lives can
also be seen. Whatever your dreams are about, it's likely you've got
one foot in the spirit realm each night and you don't even realize
it.

Physically we need sleep to survive.
REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is dream time. It accounts in adults
for about 20 to 25% of sleep per night, that's about 90 to 120
minutes. It's broken up into about four or five dream periods and
becomes longer toward the end of the night. Everybody dreams, but not
everybody remembers (pwpotential.org).

Dreaming is very important to keep
healthy, in fact we wouldn't survive without it. Numerous studies of
individuals deprived of the REM phase of sleep have been conducted.
Participants were allowed to sleep for an equivalent amount of time
during other phases of sleep but awoken during REM sleep. During
waking hours they became increasingly disorientated, depressed and
agitated over a few days. Daily functioning became impaired, they ate
more, and experienced temporary memory loss and impaired
concentration.

During sleep, your conscious mind and
human brain are resting. Your spirit is free to roam. It is believed
that in the spirit realm thoughts become thought-forms – that's
thought-made realities. In our physical world we live in space-time,
that's where time is fixed, running in a straight line - and we can
move about in the space surrounding us. In the spirit realm, the
opposite is true. It exists in time-space where you can move around
in time, but space is fixed – meaning you are free to change and
manifest space at will through thought and without having to travel
around.

There are three levels of consciousness
– the unconscious, subconscious and conscious. The unconscious
contains information we don't necessarily know and can't readily
access, that's past lives, hidden knowledge, the higher self and so
on - we cannot get at it without asking or trying. The subconscious
contains information that we already know, but is still difficult to
access. We need to attempt to bring that information to a conscious
level in order to review it. The conscious level is our working daily
level. The dream state may be your conscious self (while dormant
during sleep) transferring concepts to the subconscious, and the
subconscious in turn communicating back to the conscious. The
unconscious too receives communication from the subconscious during
sleep while uploading to the mass unconscious or Akashic
records.

One theory about dreams regards the
'data dump' – that dreams are the residual effect from your mind
uploading, or dumping data, to the great mass unconscious or Akashic
records. Ultimately for the benefit of the infinite intelligence of
the universe.

Dreams occur in time-space and not
space-time where our physical body resides. Therefore your spirit can
explore without the constraints of time or physical space. The images
you see tend to be manifested for you and this is the likely result
of your spirit self, or higher self or selves manifesting them for
you. Dreams can also be excerpts from past lives or extracts from the
Akashic records (the great mass unconscious of collective memories,
knowledge and experience).

Dreams can also be, as most of us
believe, residue from our daily lives playing out in scenarios. For
example, if you have been experiencing success at work, you might
have a dream that plays out a scenario where you find great success,
and feel the resulting enjoyment. This could be your subconscious
presenting this to you as a reward for all your hard work or as
motivational encouragement to keep trying hard.

Psychology theories explain that dreams
allow you to process and make sense of the world that you experience
while awake. Symbols and 'archetypes' can arise (discussed shortly)
that represent aspects of your life. You can learn these symbols,
write them down, and learn what they represent to you, for next time.
This will help your subconscious communicate to your conscious mind –
and you can make better sense of your dreams.

Many believe that your soul leaves your
body during dream time. If so, then it is attached by the astral
cord, a shimmering elastic like cord attaching your spirit to your
body. Perhaps the most vivid of dreams and the most far fetched,
involve leaving the body for astral travel, where distances need to
be covered to reach a destination within the physical realm. It may
also be true that your spirit manifests actual realities within the
spirit realm via thought form. Bringing the realities to you, rather
than your spirit visiting them itself (that is, yourself).

Meditation is vitally important
for a balanced mind/body/spirit complex and opens the gateway to
intelligent infinity. Sleep is unconscious meditation. Given that our
mind and body falter so badly without dream-time, it may be true that
our mind/body/spirit complex requires it on the most fundamental
level in order to survive – meaning we need cosmic energy and
universal love to survive on this earthly plane. Through dreams, even
those who do not meditate get their daily dose of cosmic energy,
keeping their mind/body/spirit complex replenished with vital
energies for physical survival.

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), a student
and friend of Sigmund Freud (the father of psychoanalysis) perceived
that dreams are a manifestation of the human unconscious mind trying
to communicate messages to the conscious mind. Jung believed that
this was frequently a product of the unconscious mind gaining
information form the 'collective unconscious', that's the
unconscious mass bank of information uploaded from all things through
all time, or the Akashic records. Jung supposed that because the
collective unconscious is so extremely and inconceivably vast, the
human unconscious mind must make sense of it through symbols in the
dream state. He called these symbols 'archetypes'.

When you dream, it doesn’t always
make sense with the greatest of clarity, and many have come to rely
on the interpretation of dreams to make sense of them. Archetypes, as
Jung believed, is the subconscious mind's effort at interpreting the
mass unconscious, for your conscious mind to observe in dreams, and
then for you to consciously interpret. So an archetype would be an
icon that represents a specific thing or aspect in your life. But it
must be specific to you.

We are all different so we must make
sense of our own archetypes. Just like a medium gains information
from spirits through clairvoyance by using a series of pre-decided
images and symbols (archetypes) which the spirit puts before her in
her mind's eye to make sense of – you can build up your own bank of
archetypes to help you effectively interpret your dreams.

So, make a diary. Dreams are quickly
forgotten upon waking, and the longer you leave it the less chance
you'll remember. Write down the features of occurrences in dreams
without interpretation. Do this morning after morning and examine any
patterns that emerge. Compare it with events and goings-on in your
daily life, then at the back of the journal make lists of archetypes
and what they mean to you. For example, to you, hearing music means
success, walking in a garden means relaxation, seeing your mother
means to take comfort and so on. In doing this you are giving your
subconscious mind a language in which to communicate with you that
you both understand.

Spirits can visit you in dreams seeing
as you are stepping into the spirit realm! Loved ones that have
departed are most frequently reported. Before you sleep you can ask
to make contact with a dear friend or relative. Don't expect a visit
the same night, it usually occurs within the next few nights, or even
weeks. As time is not relative in the spirit world, it is less of a
concern for our spirit friends, and sometimes it's hard to 'get there
on time' within this earthy physical illusion. If you do meet a
spirit friend in your dream, talk to them as if you would normally in
life. If you can take control of your dreams all the better.

Can you wake yourself up from a
dream? Many people can do this, for example, they sense a dream is
turning negative or turning into a nightmare - so they attempt to
wake themselves up. Are you ever consciously aware that you are
dreaming? Often times, if you think and learn about dreaming enough,
you can begin to gain consciousness during a dream state. For
example, walking through the grounds of a manor house in your dream,
you may suddenly think 'wait-up, this is a dream!' and decide to use
it to your advantage. You can then consciously decide on questions to
ask entities that you meet, and you're more likely to remember the
answers by consciously taking control.

If you can consciously take
control of your dreams, through practice you can ask for contact with
departed relatives and friends, even your spirit guides and perhaps
your higher self or selves. You can then engineer your questions and
remember answers and events.

Your higher self or selves, and
spirit guides can use dreams as a way of subconsciously imparting
notions and ideas to you that you require for your journey through
life here on Earth. For example, your spiritual awakening can be
initiated in the very first place through sleep, by spirit guides
planting a notion or a question into your subconscious which sprouts
like a seed and grows throughout your consciousness like a tree.

Finally, let's look at past
lives. It's possible that your unconscious mind will impart some
information to your subconscious mind on occasions, and try to convey
it to you through scenarios or symbolism. This information or
experience could have been gained within a previous lifetime. The
forgetting at birth prevents you from recalling past lives for good
reasons, but selectively your spirit self or spirit guides might feel
it appropriate for you to regain some of this information while you
are incarnate here on earth. Alternatively you may simply be
penetrating the forgetting process altogether and your past lives are
rising to the surface of your consciousness and you are beginning to
remember.

In summary, know that you have an
awesome doorway to the spirit world each night, and although there
are measures in place that prevent you from too easily utilizing the
experience, you can try to make the most of it. It's a gift enabling
you to relive your spirit origins while you are here in the Earthly
realm.